International Information and Library Review

For more than twenty years, the International Information and Library Review has been welcomed by information scientists, librarians and other scholars and practitioners all over the world for its timely articles on research and development in international and comparative librarianship, information sciences, information policy and information ethics, digital values and digital libraries. Contributions to the journal have come from staff or members of many different international organizations, including the United Nations, UNESCO, IFLA, and INTAMEL, and from library and information scientists in academia, government, industry, and other organizations.

The peer-reviewed journal focuses on three broad areas:Policy and ethical issues, including digital values, around the world.The ways in which information technologies and policies are used to help in decision-making, problem solving and improving the quality of people's lives. Designing and implementing information systems and services in libraries and other organizations around the world.

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Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP):2013: 0.873SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field.

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.673

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR):2013: 0.673SJR is a prestige metric based on the idea that not all citations are the same. SJR uses a similar algorithm as the Google page rank; it provides a quantitative and a qualitative measure of the journal’s impact.